Historical Immersion Project

The Historical Immersion Project (HIP) is a collection of mods for Crusader Kings II which are designed to be able to work together in any combination. As the name suggests, all of its modules share a common focus upon historical immersion, while also aiming to provide improved balance and new mechanics and flavor.

HIP is not currently available on Steam Workshop because of conflicts between the modular installer and the limitations of the Workshop system. However, the team do have a Steam group where players can get notifications of new releases and keep track of other HIP players.

EMF is the core overhaul mod in HIP. It is based on (but replaces) the now defunct Project Balance. EMF focuses on providing historically plausible, coherent new mechanics and flavor for your CK2 experience. It also improves upon, and occasionally fixes, certain aspects of the vanilla game experience.

Improved Crown Laws: Configurable crown authority which unlocks different sub-laws at each level as well as different succession laws, casus belli, and other effects. Unique law-change cooldown and faction mechanics.

Dynamic Levies: Reduces the liege levy available to all rulers as their realms get larger.

SWMH is first and foremost a comprehensive map overhaul, we have gone to great lengths to bring alive the medieval world as contemporary accurately as possible. Secondly it includes substantial work on history and cultural related features. All this work has been conducted with a philosophy of keeping as close to the core features as possible, in order to maximize compatibility with other mods.

Adds real cultural retinues, every culture has a retinue based on an appropriate real life military unit.

Adds cultural modifiers, every culture is no longer the same as the next one.

Adds unique, and culture specific form of address and titles.

Adds cultural appropriate spelling to all entities (from empires all the way down to baronies), with many styling their contemporary medieval spelling form (For instance Denmark sporting medieval danish, while Norway featuring westnorse spelling).

Adds full dynamic naming to the Iberian peninsula, British isles and Baltic adjacent areas

CPRplus is a successor character portrait mod to Cybrxkhan's Culture and Portrait Revamp (customarily called "CPR" for shorthand) and the CPR Flavor Plus! submod by sifsilver, both in name and content. The goal of CPRplus remains the same as CPR’s: to offer more variety in character portrait. CPRplus seeks to do so through not only this principle but also through additional graphical assets, recoloring some and completely overhauling others as well as reorganizing how and when graphic assets are displayed in-game. The result is a very uniform and smoother transition from culture to culture, without any one particular culture sticking out oddly because of its original art style.

LTM is a graphics overhaul mod for the SWMH map. The mod replaces and adds lots of map related materials, both to the terrain map and political maps, such as new textures, borders, rivers, shaders, trees, terrain, etc., with assets of higher quality, variety, accuracy, and discernibility. LTM for vanilla is a lite edition however, this means that it only replaces existing vanilla assets but does not add any additional content nor does it make any improvements to the vanilla map, that being said, LTM 'lite' still makes the vanilla map far more clear and pretty than what is originally.

NOTE: For these instructions, you will need to use Terminal (OS X) or any such equivalent (Linux) to change directories to your mod folder. The command to change directories to your mod folder, assuming that it's in its standard location, follows:

Mac OS X

cd ~/"Documents/Paradox Interactive/Crusader Kings II/mod"

Linux

cd ~/".paradoxinteractive/Crusader Kings II/mod"

You've already unzipped everything in the downloaded HIP .7z archive into your mod folder as per the standard installation instructions.

Find the application Terminal that comes with your Mac. It is impossible to uninstall and bundled with every Mac. If it's not on your Launcher already, then search Finder under Applications for Terminal. It should be in a subfolder in Applications with other system utilities. Run Terminal. [ On Linux, just run your favorite terminal application. ]

You should now be running the automatic installer, and your experience should be identical to that of Windows, except that the Windows console sucks compared to your terminal. Note that DLC auto-detection for CPRplus IS NOW SUPPORTED under Mac/Linux.

Answer the questions prompted on the command line. Default answers are indicated in square brackets at the end of each prompt.

The Great Goddess Isis does not welcome your questions; the Great Goddess Isis is above petty human concerns such as function. But if you must know, she's a useful construct. She runs our starting events, controls the weather, clears children's guardians so they can be imprisoned properly, and many other things besides. She's basically a cooler version of the Pope.

Q: Where is the 769 bookmark?

SWMH doesn't include the 769 Charlemagne bookmark and likely never will. The lack of reliable historical information for that date prevents the SWMH team from making it significantly more historically accurate, which is the whole purpose of the mod. If you want to play from the 769 start, you'll need to install HIP without SWMH. If you'd like more information about why SWMH made this decision, you can read the forum thread.

Q: Where is India?

India isn't currently available on the SWMH map. The SWMH team will be adding some parts of India in an upcoming release, but won't be adding the entire thing due to time limitations, concerns about performance, and questions over the relevance of the more distant areas to the areas of the map SWMH focuses upon. If you want the whole of India then you'll need to install HIP without SWMH. You can read discussion about this topic in the forum thread.